Welcome to Design Instruct!

We’re so glad you’re here to join us in this new venture brought to you by the same people behind Six Revisions. Just like Six Revisions, we will provide you, the readers, with valuable and relevant content of the highest quality. We will inspire and motivate you, open up engaging discourse, and of course, we’ll have fun along the way.

What is Design Instruct?

Design Instruct is a tutorial web magazine for designers and digital artists. We publish high quality content that you can use for learning new techniques and to inspire in you in your own work.

We will publish up-to-the-minute and relevant tutorials written by some of the best talents from around the world, covering everything from graphic design to photography to illustration and designing for the web.

We will also publish inspiring articles featuring new designers to watch, innovations in the industry, and a whole lot more.

Our goal is to be the premier venue for all your visual arts and communication needs. Whether you’re an experienced professional looking for inspiration to freshen up your portfolio, a student who’s just starting out, or someone just looking to keep up with the goings on in the wild world of design, Design Instruct will be here for you.

Rest assured, we stand by one principle: Excellence. That’s all we’ll produce and that’s what you should expect.

Please have a look around the site and tell us what you think in the comments.

Design Instruct versus Six Revisions

Whereas Six Revisions is about web development and web design, the main focus of Design Instruct will be the entire world of visual arts and communication.

Connect with Us

Isaac is the Co-Founder and Chief Editor of Design Instruct. He has experience in various design and art related fields including design, illustration, and photography. He's in charge of making sure that Design Instruct publishes high quality content that professional designers and digital artists demand and expect. Get in touch via email and on Twitter as @designinstruct or @IAMTHEGUBE.

Hey Miles. Thanks for the kind words on the design. It took me quite a while to get it just the way I wanted it. The mantra I kept repeating whilst designing the site was: “Keep it simple, Keep it minimal”. Ike and I both wanted the focus to be on the content. We didn’t want it to be cluttered with 100 site features and a million colors (because the tutorials will be plenty colorful).

But there will be more stuff to come. Hope that you all check out the Upcoming Features and changelog page to see the stuff that’s coming up! And if you have suggestions on what you’d like to see here on Design Instruct, leave a comment here or contact us.

We plan to have design-related freebies here, yes. We’ll also be having giveaways occasionally.

Here’s a hint to everyone here reading the comments: we’ll be running a Twitter giveaway very soon, so please follow us on @designinstruct since that’s where we’ll be announcing and running the giveaways.

This is great, guys. The design is really good, kind of reminded me of Jason Santamaria for a second. Would it be possible to submit ideas for tutorials? There’s an effect in Photoshop that I’ve been dying to learn. Thanks guys and keep up the good work!

We’re going to have a quick submission box on the sidebar soon where you can submit ideas, give us feedback, and ask us design-related questions. What we hope to do is be like a traditional magazine, but with the advantage of being online so that there are more chances to interact with us than, say, a Photoshop magazine.

So to answer your question John, we’ll definitely have a suggestion box. For now though, feel free to share it here or contact us directly.

Yes, to me, specially on a minimalist design, the details are what counts the most. So a lot of time was taken on the details. For example, the diagonal horizontal gray borders that you see all over the site, we must’ve gone through 10 iterations to get it to look the way we wanted it to.

The Brothers Gube, I love the focus of this blog, I think the market is eager for this sort of content. SMASH! That was a bottle of champagne against the bow of the SS Gube. I’m looking forward to seeing how this progresses! Congrats!

Haha. I like that, “The Brothers Gube.” Thank you for your enthusiasm! We’re very happy with the response this website is getting, so we’re right there with ya on the champagne. Please stay tuned. We definitely have some great stuff on the way! Again, thanks.

Yes arnold, there will be more tutorials here because we’re a tutorial web magazine for designers and digital artists. But along with tutorials, we’d like to mix it up with some articles for education and inspiration (discussions on color theory, interviews of top designers for inspiration, showcases, etc.)

Screencast tutorials? It’s in our roadmap for sure. I can’t give you a solid date on when we’ll start screencasts, but I will say that it’s a direction we’re headed.

Just came across your site today and it went strait to my daily bookmarks to check out! I hope to gain/contribute to your site in the coming months! I’ve built and sold several icon sites over the last few years and find myself creating my own icons for everything I do. I have no formal art training, all of my knowledge has come from tutorials for which I am very grateful for!

Greetings from me as well! Best luck with your new site, tutorials always are very appreciated :) I am sure you know this and that’s the main reason why you decided to create dedicated website for only that purpose!

I just found out about this site yesterday (from sixrevisions). The site looks great and I’m excited to be following it from the beginning. I really like that you made the Upcoming features and change log page for everyone to see.

One suggestion that I have is maybe adding a comment form on the upcoming features. This way we can have a public conversion to share our ideas on the features. Or maybe you can add a ranking system to the upcoming features.

Some time before, I really needed to buy a building for my organization but I did not earn enough money and couldn’t order something. Thank God my mate proposed to try to take the mortgage loans at banks. Hence, I did so and used to be satisfied with my student loan.

I just found out about this site yesterday (from sixrevisions). The site looks great and I’m excited to be following it from the beginning. I really like that you made the Upcoming features and change log page for everyone to see.

One suggestion that I have is maybe adding a comment form on the upcoming features. This way we can have a public conversion to share our ideas on the features. Or maybe you can add a ranking system to the upcoming features.

One suggestion that I have is maybe adding a comment form on the upcoming features. This way we can have a public conversion to share our ideas on the features. Or maybe you can add a ranking system to the upcoming features.